stores and shops you're watching cbs5 eyewitness news on the cw "this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." >> no areas are safe now. doesn't matter where you are. nearly a dozen stores and shops robbed over the last two months. indications are the same manager is responsible for all the hits. rain now just hours away. a return to winter in the bay area. details coming up. more campus cuts draw a crowd and complaints. the program one local college says it can no longer afford. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. there is an element of danger. that's how police describe a series of robberies in the east bay. and police believe one man is responsible for all of them. they are warning that his violent method could escalate. >> no areas are safe now. doesn't matter where you are. >> reporter: a lone armed robber hitting at least ten spots in the east bay in the past two months. his target? drug stores and sandwich shops like this subway in fremont.

>> that's crazy. probably won't come back here any more. >> reporter: the last seven of the robberies have been in hayward and fremont. since january 27th a man with a gun has hit shops in all of these locations. there were similar robberies in san leandro, oakland and berkeley in december and january. the robberies are occurring at around 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. at subway, quizno's and the robber has the same m.o., hanging out in the store, buying a few snacks then pulling out a handgun and demanding cash. we know the robber has a gun. so far he has only hit people with the gun but the concern is as this goes on he could get bolder and perhaps shoot it. heehe is described as a black man in his 20s, 5'9" or 10 sometimes wearing a red hoodie. >> always best to cooperate and not risk your personal safety and be a good witness and call the police immediately. >> reporter: in the east bay,

cbs5. hope you enjoyed the nice weekend while it lasted. things are going to change. lawrence has the details. >> we could even see snow. wintery weather headed back towards the bay area. it is about time. rain below normal across most of the bay area. it has been pretty nice to enjoy. rain now making its way towards the coastline. check out the latest satellite images. you see that cloud rotating right into the bay area. clouds moving in. the rain drops, well, still a few hours away now but won't be long and we will see some of that moving on shore. through the night you see a few showers show up then the commute early on tomorrow morning. it looks like a main front will continue to sag in across all the way from the santa rosa area down through san francisco in through the santa cruz mountains. commute could be rough. but heading towards the afternoon, middle of the day or so, things break up to more

scattered showers and by the afternoon becoming much more widely scattered around the bay area. but there is a series of storms lining up after that. we will talk about that. plus the prospects for snow in the bay area. coming up in just a few minutes. ann, back to you. >> lawrence, thank you. at a bay area college already ripe with tension another cut is coming and paveed the way for confrontations on campus this afternoon. don knapp explains why the new cut is compared to racism. >> reporter: for nearly half a century high school students have been coming to the university of san francisco during summers in hopes of one day becoming college students. >> i have been here since i was a freshman. my friends forced me to apply and best thing that has ever happened to me. >> why is that? >> because without this program i don't know what my grades would be like to be honest. >> reporter: it works with 150 students puts them in a college setting and helps them focus on getting in. now u.s.f. is about to force the federally funded program to find another campus claiming the school

doesn't have the space now that it is offering an accelerated undergraduate program. >> we reduced tuition by one third for summer. a huge influx of students taking classes in the summer. >> reporter: last month u.s.f. triggered community protest. the frequency of its radio station saying it was a drain on resources and didn't serve its core mission. now they are challenging the claim that it doesn't have the space for upward bound. >> we care about latin america, we care about the philippines as we should but we don't care about this program. >> reporter: criticism tinged with racial overtones, the reverend brown suggested u.s.f. action was reminiscent of earlier. >> they learn how to read and

write by candle light. and kerosene light. >> reporter: they are giving them two years to relocate upward bound high school students say just being on this campus has helped them become college material. >> this campus is amazing much it is a beautiful campus. >> i wouldn't have this experience of living in the dorms, getting college classes. >> just being on campus you feel like you are ready for college and you are ready to move on and excel and do what you can do. >> reporter: if u.s.f. does boot it from its campus there is likelihood that it will spring up on another college campus but those involved with the u.s.f. program saying it works and they will fight to keep it where it is. >> it would be nice to see that. if it can move on to another campus that would be good. >> they love it here. they don't want to go. >> that's clear. >> thank you, don. progress at a traffic

relief project in the east bay digging the tunnel closer to oakland. one year after it began on one end the new tunnel is 27% finished. workers will begin excavating from the oakland side later this month. the new bore will add lanes to the existing six lanes in the tunnel and that will ease congestion. expected to cost $391 million. final environmental report on a proposed waterfront casino hotel in richmond has been released. city council will decide in the coming months whether to accept the report. and if they do, a band of indians can develop a fuel depot. several officials including the marrow pose the project. voters defeated a measure to approve the casino last november. cal train will hold a series of public meetings around the bay area to get the public's input into proposed

service changes and fare increases. the service changes involve reduction or cancellation of service and among the proposals suspending weekend and holiday service and extending services to special events such as giants games. they want a 25 cents fare increase. egypt, military rulers are reaching out to the protestors who helped bring down president hosni mubarak. members of the youth movement met with the military in an exchange described as encouraging. scott goldberg now on the dismantling of the former regime. >> reporter: traffic is flowing through tahrir square in cairo for the first time in days. most protestors have left the square but some remain not convinced that egypt's new military government will hold free elections as promised. >> that is the biggest question in egypt right now. >> reporter: military rulers took over in egypt when president hosni mubarak steps down on friday the military on

state t.v. announced that parliament has been dissolved and confused institution suspended. while those were two key demands of demonstrators some want the cabinet disbanded. >> supreme court council has indicated its commitment to lifting the state of emergency and i believe they will do so as soon as the conditions are appropriate. this is the first day of normalcy back in egypt. >> reporter: as they begin transition to its executive the google executive who started it online spoke to 60 minutes. >> the regime is extremely stupid. they basically ended themselves. >> reporter: but egyptians give credit to him. the 30-year-old convinced hundreds of thousands they had nothing to fear. >> if you manage to break the psychological barrier you will

be able to do the revolution. >> reporter: he was in jail for 12 days but he seeks no revenge. he wants them to return billions of dollars that he say was stolen. scott goldberg, new york. >> kids called me chicken lips and other funny names because of the way i talked. >> physical and emotional pain from a young boy bullied of school. how thoughts of suicide turned into courage with the help of one of those who was bullying him gee said it felt like being hit in the face with a baseball bat. an airline pilot temporarily blinded by a laser. warning people, especially kids about the dangers of lasers. made your valentine's day reservations yet? we will tell you why you better hurry. ♪

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area's three major airports among those with the most laser incidents in the nation. lasers can temporarily blind pilots and even cause permanent eye damage. and as ben tracy most laser incidents in the nation for airports, the bay area came in third. as ben tracy reports the f.a.a. is cracking down. >> reporter: pilot steve robertson has been patrolling the skies over los angeles for 20 years. >> helicopter. >> reporter: he is part of the police air support in glendale, california. he has been in many dangerous situations but the latest one caught him by surprise. >> instant pain. instant burning. >> reporter: robertson's helicopter was hit with a handheld laser beam shining at him from the ground below. >> it felt like i had been in the hit in the face with a

baseball bat or something similar. and it blinded me for about 15 to 20 seconds. >> reporter: he couldn't see so his co-pilot had to take over. the f.a.a. is warning police departments and airlines about the danger since more and more people, mainly kids, are shining cheap laser lights into the cockpits of planes and police helicopters. >> they are dangerous and they aren't toys. >> reporter: this past week los angeles police arrested a 14- year-old boy for shining a laser at a news chopper. in florida, one man pleaded guilty to interfering with a sheriff's helicopter. he is facing up to 20 years in prison. last year more than 2800 cases of lasers being shined at aircraft were reported. nine times the number reported by pilots just five years ago. last year los angeles area airports reported 201 cases. the most of any airport in the country. followed by chicago and san jose. most of the cases are kids

using laser pointers like a toy. >> the cost of green lasers has plummeted in the last few years. in the year 2000 they would have cost several hundred dollars or more and now the same thing can be bought on ebay and elsewhere for around $5. >> reporter: an expert in lasers says kids have discovered the green laser, a beam that maintains its brightness thousands of feet in the air. >> during landing or takeoff any kind of bright flash of light is going to be a distraction and that's the real danger. >> reporter: pilots such as steve robertson hope parents and their kids understand that while lasers may seem like toys this is no game. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. for those who think school bullying is part of growing up, something we have to accept, here is a story that should make you think twice. tonight you'll hear from a bully who realized the pain he inflicted then gave courage to the boy he once taunted and teased. steve hartman reports. >> reporter: like the outside of the private school he

attended, zachery jamieson had an impressive facade always smiling. even though what zach really felt through junior high was tortured. by all the kids at his class at the american heritage school outside of atlanta. jacob says the kids began picking on zach after he got juvenile arthritis. they started by mocking his limp and it snowballed from there. >> people would take his lunch. take sweat shirts. you know. >> reporter: do you have any idea how bad he felt? >> no. he was just kind of quiet. he never really seemed too sad about it. >> reporter: zach's parents say at first they were also dismissive of the jokes and slurs. >> i would say, maybe they are just trying to be funny. >> i don't think either one of

us fully appreciated the hurricane that was going on inside him. >> kids called me chicken lips and other funny names because of the way i walked. >> reporter: he gave a speech. the jamieson's say they still would have never guessed their 11-year-old son was in so much physical and emotional pain that he would actually consider killing himself. >> a great deal of pain. >> reporter: but he did consider it and eventually even told them so. >> and i felt the blood draining out of my fast. >> reporter: bullying that ends in suicide has become an all too familiar theme on the news. and although there are certainly lessons to be learned in those terrible endings the more important lessons may lie in stories like this one where the ending is far from tragic. today zach jamieson is 13, alive and happy. thanks to a lot of good people who made some very smart

decisions. first, his parents sought counselling for zach. but they also encouraged him to get involved with the youth group at church, to meet kids outside of school. like paul and calob. >> at that time, that's all i needed was to be accepted. i'm really glad i met them. >> i suppose you are. >> reporter: of course he was still blackballed at school. but zach said these new friendships gave him the courage to face that challenge aknew. so when someone suggested he become manager of the cross- country team he went for it. >> it helped. it really did. because i connected with a lot of friends. >> that's when he really felt wanted. >> reporter: thanks to school administrators who forced the issue, jacob and zach had a long heart-to-heart in the principal's office. >> but how he felt and how it had crushed him and he really wasn't able to do anything. >> and you were different from that day on? >> yes. >> he is totally different this

year? >> really. >> reporter: at every school there will always be the popular kids. and there will always be the outsiders but as zach and jacob prove there will also be common ground for those brave enough to walk it. steve hartman, cbs news, atlanta. >> that's a great story. get ready for wind and rain and cold. oh, lawrence. >> this is our kind of weather, ann. i know you love this stuff. slee is saying no, i love that sunshine. clouds moving in across our skies tonight. moving across the moon there. thickening up right now. getting the rain going once again. doppler started to pick up on some of that off the coastline. most of that still a ways a way. off the west coast you've got that nice batch of green but it will be a few hours before it moves onshore but we are in for some major changes this week. we haven't seen this in quite awhile. basking in all the sunshine. but the rain making a return as early as late tonight, early

tomorrow morning. it will be windy at times. gusts 35 miles an hour near the coastline and over the mountain tops and what a huge difference in the temperatures. highs in the middle of the week upper 40s, maybe mid-50s in warmer spots and talking about snow down to about 2000, 2500 feet here in the bay area. so, changes in the works. 40s and 50s around the bay area right now. some partly to mostly cloudy skies. right now clouds thickening up a bit and rain returning not only here but around much of the state. rain in the sacramento valley. rain in redding. high country, yes, it has been awhile since i have seen good snow but i think they are talking about a couple of feet of snow between now and about tuesday afternoon. winter storm watch is going up as well. be very careful traveling into the high country as you'll see some weather we haven't seen up there in quite some time. cold front. ridge of high pressure that has been sitting here blocking all the storms well to the north much us is headed eastward. that means this system is going

to set itself up, jet stream dropping into our area. timing could be a little difficult, though, as we head in to early tomorrow morning. as we roll the clock forward tonight you'll notice a few showers popping up after midnight tonight then in toward tomorrow morning the commute could be a bit of a mess. rain all the way from up santa rosa down in towards san jose. i think the main cold front comes in tomorrow morning breaking off the showers as we head into the middle of the day and by the afternoon mainly just some widely scattered showers. sunny breaks too. temperatures much cooler outside around the bay area. highs only in the 50s. and, yes, it is going to get even colder as we look toward the middle of the week. how about this, we have a storm coming through opening the door for tomorrow. not a huge storm. i think a more impressive storm comes in late in the day on tuesday, into wednesday morning before tapering off to showers again. more scattered showers come thursday. that's when those cold temperatures really begin to pour into the bay area. it will be chilly. highs in the 40s. probably some low 50s in toward

the afternoon. staying unsettled possibly wet as we look towards next weekend and we have got the chinese new year's parade i believe next saturday night. they would like to see it dry. >> although they do go on even in the rain. they have done it before. >> if you could work it out they would be happy. >> i've got a few days to work on that. thank you, lawrence. planning to dine out for valentine's day tomorrow. you're in good company. a new survey suggests more couples will celebrate the holiday of love at a restaurant this year. a san francisco based reservation company said 80% of respondents will eat out. apparently a reflection of an improving economy. buying flowers for valentine's day. online coupon company groupon offered half price on a $40 purchase on the ftd flower company. but some customers found cheaper flowers on ftd's

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to have to stay in the hospital a few more days being treated for congestive heart failure, a condition she has had for a number of years. the 78-year-old oscar winning actress was admitted to hospital in los angeles last week. a spokesperson says taylor is resting comfortably and is being visitedded by family and friends. doctors say they want to make sure that they fixed what they needed to fix. the bay area has two new champions. one in tennis, another in golf. i'm dennis o'donnell. the sports minute is next. [ male announcer ] hands free driving. cars that park themselves.

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